On my lunch break today, I had a good play about with the Lumia 930 and to my mild surprise, I left the store perfectly happy and content with my twenty months old Lumia 820.

Honestly, apart from the camera, which is very good, and aluminium material being used across the board including a strikingly orange and green coloured back cover, it is absolutely no different to the very first two Windows Phone 8 phones, the Lumia 820 and 920.

In fact, I'd go as far and say that since it was unveiled back in the middle of March earlier this year, the extraordinary long wait - over four blooming months - has left me disappointed in the manner at the length of time this phone took from being announced to being available in a phone shop to buy. It is absurd; ridiculous!

It makes Apple, Google, HTC and Samsung look like marketing geniuses by showing a new product and saying, 'you can buy (or pre-order) this in one weeks time'.

Also, and no offence to Mr. Baihu however, he seemingly buys almost every new Microsoft hardware under the sun so, of course, he is going to be impressed after dropping £450 on this long overdue phone, but it left me feeling decidedly the opposite:

Windows Phone is just fine. The only thing stopping me from getting a 930 right now is that I'm still in contract (earliest I can upgrade is end of September). That free handset for £29.99 a month on 4G is actually a decent deal and cheaper over the 24 months than buying the handset and getting a sim only deal.

Of which 5,750,000 of them are highly likely to be the Lumia 520 and 620/625, me thinks.

... I see them everywhere, the lowest priced multi-coloured Lumia phones, whereas the high end models are a very rare sight indeed.

I love the UI on my Lumia however, the more I use my iPad, the more dire the apps situation becomes. I don't think I have actually purchased anything on my phone on the store this year. It is a skeleton in a cupboard compared to what I find daily on my iOS device.

A man can dream, but hopefully Nadella's talk of 'streamlining' the music and video offering means working it into Gold in some way - perhaps a bundle that's cheaper than each separately. I'd be up for that.

@Baihu1983 Have you noticed your 930 heating up a bit? I was reading about it on WPC earlier, so thought I'd ask.

I'm sitting on the EE page umming and ahhing about upgrading to it... I'd been looking forward to upgrade for a few months, but decided to wait when they took so long woth the 930. But I don't want to wait 'til the end of the year and find there's nothing to replace the McLaren.